Eviction Issues Archive

Below is a list of code violations cited against landlords on behalf of tenants playing the free rent trick, showing how minor the violations are. Only a few are serious ones. None of them justifies not paying the entire rent. Note how many of these could have been done deliberately by tenants. “Quotation marks” are [&hellip

The state and our cities and our towns spend millions paying housing inspectors to keep housing in good shape. And then the state cuts off their legs — by encouraging rent withholding that makes it impossible to improve (or even save) the housing. Housing inspectors tell their experiences We did not go to the inner [&hellip

Here are selected quotations from the U.S. Supreme Court in its ruling that rent escrowing is constitutional. We see no constitutional barrier to [the State’s] insistence that the tenant provide for accruing rent pending judicial settlement of his disputes with the lessor. The Court has twice held that it is permissible to segregate an action [&hellip

Nonpayment of rent is clearly a more frequent problem among poor people. Their lower income also limits how much rent they can pay. So lower-income neighborhoods have lower rents to start with and more problems with tenants being able to pay even those lower rents. This situation creates a serious restriction on the rental income [&hellip